It’s getting heavy around here; we’re trying to keep you organized.

MONDAY

We all know zombies are a popular subject these days, in films, books, and the public imagination. Learn about the history of these nonpeople and the place they have held in various cultures before infecting ours, through a new class at the Brooklyn Institute entitled ‘Zombi’ and the Politics of Representation, starting today.

TUESDAY

At the Center for Fiction, authors Susan Richards Shreve and Elizabeth Strout will read from their respective novels, You Are the Love of My Life and Olive Kitteridge.

WEDNESDAY

The Nuyorican Poets Cafe is hosting another evening of beatboxing slam reinterpretation of great literature with the Hip Hop Book Club, curated and hosted by Kid Lucky and Susan Hwang. This week, featured hip hop artists Spiritchild, Beatsmyth, and Luquantum Leap, among others, will engage with Grimm’s Fairytales . . . and see what comes up.

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If not today, then today!

FRIDAY

Celebrate the launch of poet Jonterri Gadson’s chapbook, Pepper Girl, with YesYes Books and Cave Canem. Gadson will read alongside poets Dorothea Lasky and L. Lamar Wilson.

Join Carolee Scheemann at Danspace Project for two evenings of film screenings and performance, featuring her works Meat Joy, Water Light/Water Needle, Snows, and Lateral Splay.

As part of the public programs at the Guggenheim, participate in a discussion entitled Empathy, Affect, and the Photographic Image, taking place in conjunction with the current exhibition of the work of Rineke Dijkstra.

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MONDAY

Who gives a shit about literary magazines? WE DO! That’s why we want you to come to a discussion on this important topic, hosted by The Coffin Factory at BookCourt. The panelists will include Lorin Stein of The Paris Review, Rob Spillman of Tin House, John Freeman of Granta, and Randy Rosenthal of The Coffin Factory.

Go see Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays at Anthology Film Archives as part of the series highlighting the screenwriting work of writers known as novelists.

The Performa Institute presents a panel discussion exploring the relationship between dance and the art world, with critical contributions from Jennifer Homans, Ralph Lemon, Jenny Schlenzka, David Velasco, and RosaLee Goldberg.

The Brooklyn Book Festival is upon us, folks. Head to Public Assembly for an opening party, hosted by Tumblr, Electric Literature, the New Inquiry, and the LA Review of Books. Dancing and drinking will ensue.

TUESDAY

Feeling creepy? Richard Matheson’s House of Usher is playing at Anthology Film Archives as part of the novelists-as-screenwriters series. Vincent says “Go.”

Painter Jason Bryant’s exhibition Smoke and Mirrors opened last week at porter/contemporary. Go check it out.

The 5th Annual Registry Exhibition at BRIC Arts opened last week, featuring 8 Artists Making Sculpture. The show features Arielle Falk, Jamie Felton, MaryKate Maher, Abraham McNally, Jong Oh, Carolyn Salas, Ian Umlauf, and Matthew C. Wilson, and will be on view until October 8.

Victor LaValle will read from his new novel The Devil in Silver at the Center for Fiction. This is a free event!

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Get your La Di Da on this weekend, along with a good dose of a BOMB poetry smackdown. A full itinerary of weekend events for all you superHUMAN’s.

FRIDAY

In conjunction with 92Y Tribeca, BOMB is proud to announce the launch of the very first La Di Da Fim Festival, founded by Miriam Bale. The festival begins today and runs through the weekend, with screenings of not-to-miss independent films by Josh Safdie, Maiko Endo, Kentucker Audley, Stephen Gurewitz, Amy Seimetz, Dustin Guy Defa, John Wilson, and more! A launch party for the North American premier of Endo’s film Kuichisan will be held this evening at the Woolworth Building. Please RSVP!

The Berkshire Word Festival begins today and runs all weekend, featuring a stunning array of writers and poets, including John Berendt, Adam Gopnik, Francine du Plessix Gray, Mary Jo Salter, Matthew Pearl, Claire Messud, Harold Augenbraum, Roxana Robinson, Alison Larkin, Susan Kinsolving, Joshua Henkin, Heidi Julavits, Dani Shapiro, and Elissa Schappell.

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It’s the fall season and New York is revving back up with art openings, book launches, and the first ever La Di Da Film Festival, plus so much more!

TUESDAY

As a complement to last week’s performance by Pauline Oliveros at the New Museum, composer, performer, and visual artist Arnold Dreyblatt presents his Turntable History / Spin Ensemble at Issue Project Room.

The Center for Fiction reopens for the fall season with a conversation between writers Joshua Cohen and Steve Stern.

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Your weekend fix is here.

FRIDAY

A new exhibition of the work of Richard Tuttle, entitled Systems VII-XII, opens at the Pace Gallery, running through October 13.

The New Museum presents an evening of experimental musical performance in which two live musicians, Pauline Oliveros and Doug Van Nort will collaborate with an artificially intelligent element called FILTER, to produce improvised, interactive sound.

The Abrons Arts Center presents a new exhibition entitled El Regreso de los Dinosaurios, with an eye on contemporary Mexican visual culture. The show will feature artists Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Travis Boyer, Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor, Ricardo Cid, Aurora Ixchel Pellizzi, GT Pellizzi, and Amanda Valdez.

SATURDAY

Join Jon Handel for a unique tour of Downtown NYC arts and culture.

Brooklyn artists open their doors to YOU with Go Brooklyn, a community project! Take a wander, see what people are creating, and get a chance to vote on artists to be shown in the Brooklyn Museum.

The New Museum will screen two films by Peggy Ahwesh, The Deadman and The Color of Love, alongside Stephen Dwoskin’s Alone.

superHUMAN is an exhibition which combines canonical myths, comic book heroes, and speculative literature and film. It features the work of the following 14 artists: Blanka Amezkua, Edgar Arceneaux, Kevin Darmanie, Kurt Forman, Chitra Ganesh, Fay Ku, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kerry James Marshall, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Dulce Pinzon, William Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Xaviera Simmons, Saya Woolfalk.

SUNDAY

High Line Art is celebrating John Cage’s centennial with an outdoor screening of his experimental film One11 (1992) and the sound composition 103. The film will be looping from 1:00 pm to 11:00 pm.

Alejandra Regalado’s In Reference to . . . Mexican Women of New York is a photographic project that features objects of personal importance brought by Mexican women who immigrated to the United States.

Choreographer Jonah Baker and artist Anthony McCall collaborate on Eclipse, which features dance within an installation built from light and image.

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It’s abundantly clear what you should do this week.

TUESDAY

Haunch of Venison proudly presents the first solo exhibition of London-based sculptor Kevin Francis Gray.

WEDNESDAY

Poet Paul Legault will read from his new English to English translation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, The Emily Dickinson Reader, at PowerHouse Arena, alongside writers MacGregor Card, Dorothea Lasky, and Lynne Tillman.

Heliopolis presents the opening reception for Do It Awake (on Mysterious Mountain), a tri-part performance and gathering with artists Emma Corrall, Mollie McKinley, and Eliza Swann.

Come celebrate the beginning of the autumn season at Danspace Project by honoring the 100th birthday of the legendary John Cage. This reception is free and will feature performances by Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, and So Percussion.

THURSDAY

See Covers by Katy Pyle and Jules Skloot, a combo of performance, music, and dance, exploring queer identity at the Bushwick Starr.

Emma Straub will read from her newly released novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures at BookCourt.

Documentarian and filmmaker Carlos Motta will host a reading at the New Museum with artists Chitra Ganesh, Andrea Geyer, Ryan Inouye, Thomas Lax, and Alex Segade, investigating textual influences on contemporary queer culture.

Stephen Powers, best known for his paintings/graffiti/public artworks, returns to NYC! Head to the Joshua Liner Gallery for the opening reception of his exhibition, A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures.

A new exhibition, loop, exploring the notion of diaspora, opens at MoCADA. The show is curated by Jessica N. Bell and Terence Nance, with works by artists including Mendi and Keith Obadike, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, BOMBlog’s Legacy Russell, O’Neil Lawrence, and Wilmer Wilson IV.

FRIDAY

A new exhibition of the work of Richard Tuttle, entitled Systems VII-XII, opens at the Pace Gallery, running through October 13.

The New Museum presents an evening of experimental musical performance in which two live musicians, Pauline Oliveros and Doug Van Nort will collaborate with an artificially intelligent element called FILTER, to produce improvised, interactive sound.

The Abrons Arts Center presents a new exhibition entitled El Regreso de los Dinosaurios, with an eye on contemporary Mexican visual culture. The show will feature artists Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Travis Boyer, Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor, Ricardo Cid, Aurora Ixchel Pellizzi, GT Pellizzi, and Amanda Valdez.

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Find a way out of your television set and its national conventions.

FRIDAY

Feeling some ’80s nostalgia? Head on over to see Crazy Thunder Road, a Japanese film (with English subtitles) portraying the rivalry between gangs after one of the leaders calls it quits.

Valeria Luiselli, author of Los Ingrávidos (Faces in the Crowd) will be at McNally Jackson at 7pm to discuss her debut novel which features poet Gilberto Owen and an Emily Dickinson-like woman as narrators.

SATURDAY

Take a tour back to your high school days with the Ramones in Rock and Roll High School at Nitehawk Cinema.

Find a seat at the IFC Center to watch Neighboring Sounds, a film about the illusion of security directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.

SUNDAY

Catch Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet, a spatialized adaptation of a 16th-century, sacred motetat at MoMa PS1 before it closes on Sept 4th.

Don’t miss Grounded, a free indoor and outdoor exhibition of sculptures featuring “found, recycled or otherwise ‘humble’ materials” at Airplane Gallery in Bushwick.

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MONDAY

Head to Hous Projects gallery to catch two photo exhibits by artists Scott Davis and Tara Bogart before they close September 1.

It’s also your last chance to catch The Parade, Nathalie Djurberg’s eerie and unnerving show, up at the New Museum until September 2.

Catch The Landlord at BAM this evening, a comic and poignant portrait of race relations in NYC in the 1970s.

TUESDAY

Bryant Park’s Word for Word Poetry series presents an evening of ekphrastic poetry, featuring Eduardo C. Corral, Sharon Dolin, Dean Kostos, and Michael T. Young.

WEDNESDAY

Join author of Snowball’s Chance, John Reed, and president of the National Book Critics Circle, Eric Banks, at McNally Jackson for a lively literary debate.

Victor LaValle will read from his recent novel, The Devil in Silver, at BookCourt.

THURSDAY

In anticipation of the new exhibition, NEWSFEED: Anonymity & Social Media in African Revolutions and Beyond Curatorial Series, opening on October 18, MoCADA and Greenlight Bookstore are hosting a supplementary reading series. Head to MoCADA for the second installment of this series, Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America by Writers for the 99%, with Amity Paye and Jessica Moore.

Head to EFA Project Space for a reception and open house featuring works by artists who participated in the 2012 Residency for Arts Workers as Artists, including Jonathan Durham, Francis Estrada, Howard Halle, Elizabeth Hamby, Jamie Kim, Naomi Miller and Sarah Walko.

FRIDAY

Flash back to cinema of the 1970s with Turkish film Kartal Yuvasi at The Spectacle, or Rock and Roll High School at Nitehawk. Vastly varied; take your pick.

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MONDAY

In event of the recent re-release of his novel, Snowball’s Chance, author John Reed will give a lecture at the New York Public Library on the mechanics of storytelling and the relationship between literature and culture.

TUESDAY

At BookCourt Bruce Wagner reads from his new novel Dead Stars, whose characters are situated within the frightening reality of a society obsessed with reality TV, voyeurism, and celebrity.

Shake a leg at 92YTribeca with The Bandana Splits, a three-woman harmony that takes its inspiration from the pop sounds of the age of golden oldies, and Well Informed, a Brooklyn-based duet that harkens back to the same era.

WEDNESDAY

The American Folk Art Museum presents DARGER/MELVILLE: The Debauchery of Weather: A Literary Mash-Up, an exploration of the literary and visual works of Henry Darger and Herman Melville. Curator Kevin Miller, writer Nicole Haroutunian, and actor Josh Weinstein will come together to read and perform excerpts.

It’s what you’ve been waiting for: a film series devoted entirely to Jeff Bridges. It’s at 92YTribeca, folks, JB before The Dude. In the spirit of this, go see Starman tonight.

THURSDAY

It’s your last chance to check out Other Arrangements, the film program organized by Frédéric Moffet at the New Museum, featuring shorts from various filmmakers, exploring the facets of queer identity from a range of perspectives.

FRIDAY

As part of its Get Weird series, the New Museum presents two bands. Dunes, a post-punk group hailing from LA, recently released their album Noctiluca with PPM Records. Household is a Brooklyn-based trio with sound that is crisp, energetic, and will most definitely make you want to tap your feet.

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Here are your instructions. Don’t disappoint us—we’re watching you.

FRIDAY

The Brooklyn Museum opens a retrospective of the chimerical sculpture of Jean-Michel Othoniel, entitled My Way. The exhibition surveys the artist’s development and experimentation with a variety of movements, including Arte Povera, Surrealism, and Minimalism. While you’re at the Museum, check out Ulrike Muller’s Raw/Cooked, a collaborative investigation of queer identity which the Brooklyn-based artist performed by collecting drawings from almost one hundred other artists and feminists and juxtaposing them with articles from the Museum’s permanent collection.

Slip over to the Mercury Lounge on some black bananas. Rather, Black Bananas is playing a show at Mercury Lounge.

Creative Time launches its first ever Sandcastle Competition! Hang out with artists on the beach, including, Ricci Albenda, Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw, Jen DeNike, William Lamson, Marie Lorenz, Mary Mattingly, Ryan McNamara, Kenya (Robinson), Dustin Yellin, and others, as they tap into their ancient sand skills, long-forgotten since childhood (or not). Prizes, snacks, refreshments, and an after party on the boardwalk will follow the competition, with music supplied by DJ iDEATH.

As a preview to the opening of the new BAM Fisher, singer Samita Sinha will perform Asterisms, an exploration of traditional North Indian music with a contemporary, electronic twist. She will be accompanied by musicians Julia Ulehla, Dave Sharma, and Aram Bajakian.

Cosmopolis, the latest film by David Cronenberg, opens today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The director will be present at the 6:30 and 9:15 PM screenings!

SATURDAY

Come celebrate the 8th annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival, hosted by Greenlight Bookstore. This free outdoor event will feature readings from young student writers as well as three prominent literary figures, Jessica Hagedorn, Tayari Jones, and Earl Lovelace. There will be a party at Greenlight following the reading.

Williamsburg Park, the reincarnation of the Williamsburg Waterfront, hosts a free show featuring performances by Anitbalas, Sharon Jones, and The Dap-Kings. Doors are at 5 PM.

SUNDAY

Head to MoMA for an afternoon showing of Mysterious Skin, a gripping psychological drama by filmmaker Gregg Araki.

Journey uptown for Harlem Day, a block party of epic proportions! The celebration, which runs from 12 to 7 PM, includes musical performances, street vendors, and a wide variety of other activities.

Close out your weekend with a trip to the Met, which is currently displaying a heretofore unexamined corpus of drawings by Ellsworth Kelly.

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This week’s screaming selection of stuff to stave off the summer slogs.

MONDAY

This evening, the Franklin Park Reading Series features a stunning slew of writers, who will read from their works to much applause and beer-drinking: Tayari Jones, Victor LaValle, Lincoln Michel, Courtney Maum, and Caitlin Elizabeth Harper.

Head over to the Spectacle to celebrate the launch of the 7th issue of The New Inquiry with an evening of long-forgotten and obscure short films having to do with cops.

TUESDAY

Author Richard Morais discusses his new novel Buddhaland Brooklyn, with his editor Phil Roosevelt at Greenlight Bookstore.

WEDNESDAY

Get PSYCHed. Get ELECTROfied. Get WARPed. Gary War plays a free show at 285 Kent.

Reflections on identity politics and geography: A new installation opens at MoMA, entitled Beyonsense, by performance- and written word-inspired artist collective Slavs and Tatars.

Matt Mondanile, from Real Estate and Predator Vision, performs solo as Ducktails, along with bands Splash and The Babies, at McCarren Park. Surf the sweet breeze of Wednesday night on some sweet tunes. It’ll keep you sailing through the rest of the week.

“BOMB Appétit!” Come celebrate Julia Childs’ 100 birthday at PowerHouse Arena with various chefs and food writers.

THURSDAY

Last chance to check out the exhibition at the Kitchen, which closes tomorrow, Matter Out of Place, featuring work by New York artists including Paul Branca, Frank Heath, David Horvitz, Fawn Krieger, Sara Jordenö, and Anna Lundh.

FRIDAY

Slip over to the Mercury Lounge on some black bananas. Rather, Black Bananas is playing a rocking show at Mercury Lounge.

Creative Time launches its first ever Sandcastle Competition! Hang out with artists on the beach, including, Ricci Albenda, Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw, Jen DeNike, William Lamson, Marie Lorenz, Mary Mattingly, Ryan McNamara, Kenya (Robinson), Dustin Yellin, and others, as they tap into their ancient sand skills, long-forgotten since childhood (or not). Prizes, snacks, refreshments, and an after party on the boardwalk with music supplied by DJ iDEATH.

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We’ve got limitless energy and run on nothing but culture.

Catch two remarkable photography exhibitions at Hous Projects. Radically different but equally fascinating works by Scott Davis and Tara Bogart are currently on view at this SoHo gallery.

FringeNYC (or The New York International Fringe Festival) commences its 16th run today, offering a VAST array of performances and shows produced by over 200 artistic groups, which will place over the course of the next two weeks in venues all over the city, plus more!

Following on the heels of last week’s Wild Flag show, Celebrate Brooklyn brings you an eminently danceable evening of music: Frankie Rose, Little Dragon, and Voices of Black will play the Prospect Park Bandshell for free. Doors open at 6 PM.

Burn the midnight oil at a late screening of cult favorite Fantastic Planet at Nitehawk Cinema. This presentation of Rene Laloux’s hallucinatory classic will be enhanced by live musical support from Morricone Youth.

SATURDAY

The New Museum screens Andy Warhol’s 1966 exploration of the JFK assassination, Since, which uses a variety of collagist techniques to achieve a nonlinear reconstruction of the historical narrative and interrogate our relationship to modern media forms.

If Warholian cinema proves a bit too heady for your Saturday night appetite, consider revisiting Paul Verhoeven’s original Total Recall, currently running at Film Forum.

Join artist Jon Handel for a gustoNY tour of the Lower East Side’s galleries, historical landmarks, and cultural hotspots.

What’s the perfect capstone to any sunny day? Real Estate. The master pop-smiths are joined at Webster Hall by indefatigable lo-fi hero R. Stevie Moore. Arrive early to catch opener Andrew Cedermark.

SUNDAY

Catch Almayer’s Folly, Chantal Akerman’s latest picture—and her first in seven years—at Anthology Film Archives.

Today’s your last chance to see sculptor Rachel Kneebone’s homage to Auguste Rodin, Regarding Rodin, which leaves the Broolyn Museum at 6 PM. Equal parts curation, tribute, and reinvention, Kneebone’s project places eight original pieces alongside fifteen of Rodin’s most notable works.

Set your sights on Harlem and make use of the Studio Museum’s Target Free Sundays program. Who, What, Wear, an exploration of the evolution of style conducted through a survey of the museum’s permanent collection, closes today—don’t miss this opportunity to see works by Malick Sidibe and Kehinde Wiley, on the cheap, no less!

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So soak it up.

MONDAY

In conjunction with the summer reading series, Books Beneath the Bridge, the Community Bookstore presents beloved icon Patti Smith for a reading and book signing.

TUESDAY

The Community Bookstore, will also host a book launch party for Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep by author David K. Randall.

Come celebrate the release of the new book by Joshua Cohen Four New Messages, at PowerHouse Arena, with an introduction by A Public Space founding editor Brigid Hughes.

Head over to Word for the launch of a new novel by Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest. Author Adam Rapp and news editor Sarah Weinman will join Kitamura to have a conversation about the book.

WEDNESDAY

A documentary by Dutch directors Rob Schröder and Gabriëlle Provaa, Meet the Fokkens opens at Film Forum, centering on the 69-year-old twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens, who’ve spent their lives working the red-light district of Amsterdam.

THURSDAY

In continuation of its free summer reading series, Poetry from the Rooftops, the Academy of American Poets presents an evening with Aracelis Girmay, A. Van Jordan, and Tom Sleigh.

Hudson River Park’s free outdoor concert series, RiverRocks, presents smashing performances by three musical groups, Grimes, Wild Nothing, and DIIV. Time to rock out on the river!

FRIDAY

Celebrating its 16th run, FringeNYC (or The New York International Fringe Festival) commences today, offering a VAST array of performances and shows produced by over 200 artistic groups, taking place over the course of the next two weeks in venues all over the city, plus more!

Burn the midnight oil at a late screening of cult favorite Fantastic Planet at Nitehawk Cinemas. This presentation of Rene Laloux’s hallucinatory classic will be enhanced by live musical support from Morricone Youth.

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Get off your couch and go for gold this weekend! We’ve got a program of Olympian proportions to keep you active and entertained.

FRIDAY

Head upstate for Pork and Poetry at the Mt. Tremper Arts Summer Festival in Mount Tremper, NY. There will be a pork roast dinner, a small press gathering, and a poetry reading featuring Joe Fletcher, Paul Legault, Bianca Stone, and Ana Božičević.

The Wassaic Project’s Annual Summer Festival is happening this weekend! This amazing event, free and open to the public, features the exhibition Return from Rattlesnake Mountain, which incorporates artwork, performance, music, and film presentations by over 100 artists, including Man Bartlett, Breanne Trammell, Ghost of a Dream, Max Bode, The Stepkids, Chrome Canyon, The Suzan, and many more!

Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell with Wild Flag, Ted Leo, and Mission of Burma. Admission to the event is free, so you can rest assured that the draw will be huge; get there promptly at 6 PM to secure yourself a spot.

Dreams of a Life, Carol Morley’s chilling, imaginative documentary about the three-year gap between the death of Joyce Vincent and the discovery of her body in a lonely London apartment, opens today at IFC Center.

SATURDAY

Anthology Film Archives hosts a benefit for the Millenium Film Workshop, featuring a performance of Ken and Flo Jacob’s TIME SQUARED—a promising combination of movement, light, projection, and propellers. The film The Green Wave will be screened after the performance.

T Space will host an opening reception in honor of a special project by Martin Puryear, Vessel. A catalog featuring essays by Carter Ratcliff and Steven Holl will supplement the exhibition.

Ode to Street Hassle, a new exhibition curated by Chris Hosea, opens at Bronx Art Space. The show includes works by artists Zoe Leonard, Kimi Hodges, Myles Paige, Kim Bennett, Amy Touchette, and Julia Elsas.

Much-lauded Barcelona producer John Talabot and wunderkind beat-smith Jamie xx play Le Poisson Rouge tonight.

BAMcinématek’s Do the Reggae film series screens Babylon, Franco Rosso’s incisive, meticulously-paced drama about coming of age in the burgeoning reggae scene of ’70s South London.

SUNDAY

Scope the New Museum’s ambitious interrogation of our fraught and changing relationship with technology, Ghosts in the Machine. The show, which sprawls across three gallery spaces, explores a variety of artistic media, disciplines, and theoretical contexts.

The third session of the Boffo Art Camp at Fire Island Pines has commenced! This iteration of the camp, which offers a variety of participatory events ranging from film screenings to cooking classes to various arts & crafts, features work by artists Ryan McNamara, Steven Ladd, and Marcelo Krasilcic. Head over this evening to cool off at the Pool Party Benefit, hosted by Brent Sikkema and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz.

Those looking to cast three sheets to the wind (or put four on the floor?) would do well to trek out to Williamsburg Park for the Mad Decent Block Party, which brings you performances by Major Lazer, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, and Lunice, among others. Get your hype on!

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We aim to make the quiet season less quiet.

MONDAY

Books Beneath the Bridge continues with a Short Story Night hosted by Word. The spectacular line-up of authors slated to read includes, Robin Black, Tania James, Rajesh Parameswaran, Jim Shepard, and Charles Yu.

Go see Salt-N-Pepa at Wingate Park. For free. Yes, Salt-N-Pepa. And also Public Enemy. Hm? What? Yes, that’s what I said.

TUESDAY

Three readings tonight: Take your pick.

BookCourt will host a release party for the novel, Dare Me, by Megan Abbott, which will include a reading from the author, audience Q & A, and book signing.

Alternatively, if you missed Books Beneath the Bridge, head over to McNally Jackson Bookstore to see Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, read from his new story collection, Sorry Please Thank You.

Or! Yes, there’s more: check out Karen Thompson Walker, reading from her new novel, The Age of Miracles, at the PowerHouse Arena.

WEDNESDAY

In celebration of having too many books (as if such a thing were possible), Ugly Ducking Presse is launching the Full Moon Sale, offering a special package deal of 70 UDP titles for under $5 per book! The sale begins today and lasts through the 3rd. Don’t miss out.

The Museum of Chinese in America will host a reading and discussion by Jeffery Yang from his translation of Chinese poet Liu Xiaobo’s collection of poems June Fourth Elegies.

THURSDAY

Unnameable Books is hosting a launch party for the Spring 2012 issue of The Literary Review. There will be readings by poets Cindy Cruz, Geoffrey Nutter, Tanya Paperny, and Martha Witt.

As part of the ongoing summer free music series at the Damrosch Bandshell, The Bad Plus will play along with Brandt Brauer Frick.

FRIDAY

Head upstate for Pork and Poetry at the Mt. Tremper Arts Summer Festival in Mount Tremper, NY. There will be a pork roast dinner, a small press gathering, and a poetry reading featuring Joe Fletcher, Paul Legault, Bianca Stone, and Ana Božičević.

Wander over to the Whitney for a visual description and touch tour of the Yayoi Kusama exhibition.

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We shall guide you, weary traveler. Here’s your complete itinerary for this weekend.

FRIDAY

Joshua Cohen reads from his collection of novellas, Four New Messages, at 192 Books at 7 PM. Four New Messages won’t be available for purchase until August 7, but you can read an excerpt from “Sent” by purchasing a copy of BOMB Issue 120 or subscribing.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, which chronicles the political and artistic practices of renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, opens today at the IFC Center.

As part of its Ghost in the Machine show, the New Museum presents an evening of against-the-grain musical performance with the alternative hip hop group Antipop Consortium.

Joe Klamar’s Olympic Portraits opens today at The Powerhouse Arena. The exhibition, designed to coincide with the 2012 Olympics in London, features intimate portraits of world-class athletes shot at this year’s Olympic Committee’s Media Summit in Dallas, TX.

SATURDAY

Acquaint yourself with the often overlooked craft of glass art at GlassLab, a program organized by the Corning Museum of Glass and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. GlassLab, which departs Governor’s Island on July 29, hosts live creative demonstrations by contemporary glassblowers and graphic designers.

Catch Korean director Seung-Jun Yi’s touching new documentary, Planet of Snail, at Film Forum.

Didn’t spring for Catalpa tickets? Get your musical fill on the cheap instead! Head uptown to Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield for a free daytime show featuring Texas bluesman Gary Clark Jr. and GIVERS.

Caveman, Skaters, and The Denzels will play Brooklyn Bowl later this evening; all you need to do to gain admission is RSVP before midnight on Friday.

SUNDAY

Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000, MoMA’s examination of themes of childhood in modernist design, opens today. Your ticket will also earn you free entry to MoMA PS1, the museum’s Long Island City counterpart, which is currently displaying work by Lara Favaretto, Esther Kläs, and James Turrell, among others.

Anthology Film Archives screens Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s latest documentary effort, Abendland. This massively ambitious and exhaustive study chronicles the phenomena of technological progress, infatuation, and sprawl in today’s Europe.

Icy electronic duo Zambri plays for free tonight at the Ace Hotel.

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MONDAY

As part of the 2012 HOT! Festival, Dixon Place presents FUMBLING: A Queer Tribute to Sarah McLachlan. A talented cast of artists including NathAnn Carrera, Jessica Halem, Elizabeth Koke, Katie Liederman, Bryn Kelly, Jeanne Vaccaro, Chris Tyler, and Justin Vahala will perform interpretive and commemorative explorations of individual tracks from McLachlan’s album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.

Don’t miss your opportunity to watch John Huston’s classic film The Maltese Falcon under the stars in Bryant Park.

TUESDAY

LIMITED TIME ONLY, co-directed by BOMBlog Arts Editor Legacy Russell, invites you to participate in MAD-LIB[rary] a self-directed curatorial adventure at the ICI’s Curatorial Hub in TriBeCa. This unconventional creative experiment, which is produced in collaboration with the Feminist Press, will feature editions from BOMB Senior Editor Mónica de la Torre, John Reed, J. Morrison, and Clifford Owens, among many others.

Seattle-based duo Shabazz Palaces brings its wildly fresh and abstract hip hop to Fort Greene Park for a free show beginning at 6 PM. Longtime collaborators THEESatisfaction will open things up.

The Brooklyn Institute of Social Research launches a new series of classes on Realism, which will explore notions of what is real in the context of historically situated literature through various fictional and theoretical readings and discussion.

WEDNESDAY

Christian Marclay’s staggering video project The Clock will run through the end of July. Head down to Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium early to gain free admission.

McCarren Park’s Summerscreen, which pairs live musical performances with outdoor film screenings, will show Dirty Dancing at 8 PM this evening. The event will begin at 6 PM with sets by Vaz and Prince Ramaand, as well as a secret band, which may or may not by Telepathe . . .

THURSDAY

SculptureCenter’s retrospective of the work of minimalist sculptor Bill Bollinger concludes on July 30.

Biographer Lisa Cohen discusses her debut work All We Know: Three Lives, a tripartite study of the lives of Ester Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta, and Madge Garland, with New Yorker critic Hilton Als at Greenlight Books

Head down to Pier 84 in Hudson River Park for free show featuring Oberhofer, The Soft Pack, and Royal Bangs.

FRIDAY

Joshua Cohen reads from his collection of novellas, Four New Messages, at 192 Books at 7 PM. Four New Messages won’t be available for purchase until August 7, but you can read an excerpt from “Sent” by purchasing a copy of BOMB Issue 120 or subscribing.

Never Sorry, which chronicles the political and artistic practices of renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, opens today at the IFC Center.

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We want to see you move! This weekend’s chock full of high energy activities.

FRIDAY

Curbs and Stoops, in collaboration with Rhythmology, present their first pop-up art exhibition, featuring Mexican-American painter and installation artist Francisco Moreno. Moreno’s solo show, Las Noticias, explores issues of assimilation and immersion in the terms of the immigrant’s experience entering into American culture. The opening reception will be held today from 6 to 10 PM.

Familiarize yourself with the photographic medium of the future past! The New Museum’s revisitation of the holographic technology, Pictures from the Moon: Artists’ Holograms 1969-2008, features works by James Turrell, Ed Ruscha, Eric Orr, Louise Bourgeois, and Bruce Nauman.

Head uptown, and fast—Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava, a retrospective look at German ceramic sculpture, leaves Alex Zachary Peter Currie Gallery tomorrow.

SATURDAY

The Second Annual New York City Poetry Festival begins today!

Get yourself hot and bothered at Warm Up, MoMA PS1’s weekly concert series. This Saturday’s program, which features sets from Le1f, MikeQ, and Sepalcure, among others, will keep you dancing hard all day long.

As part of its Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Anthology Film Archives presents a screening of Our Daily Bread, cinematographer Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s uncompromising examination of the processes by which common foods are produced. Geyrhalter’s marriage of documentary austerity and electrifying visuals promises to be a fascinating viewing experience.

SURPRISE!!! Kick off your Saturday at this performance project, retrospective, and zine release party at Booklyn Artists Alliance. The programming details of the event are appropriately mysterious, but you can expect to encounter work by Angelo Zwicky, Aaron Anderson, Gabe Dikel, and Keith Mendak. Two new issues of SURPRISE!!! will be up for grabs as well. Don’t miss this!

SUNDAY

Venture out to the Museum of the Moving Image for a matinee showing of technicolor classic The Red Shoes.

Poets House honors the memory of Joe Brainard with readings by an impressive cast of poets including Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Paul Legault, Joanna Fuhrman, and Julie Kantor.

That Sinking Sense of Wonder completes its run at Williamsburg gallery SOUTHFIRST with a closing reading entitled “Spiral Interpretation.” The event will feature stylistically diverse contributions from poets Thom Donovan, Brenda Iijima, Elaine Kahn, Eliza Swann, and Nicole Wallace and Denise Levertov.

Le Poisson Rouge hosts acclaimed punks Iceage and the ever-fascinating Dirty Beaches. Submerge yourself in Huang’s haunting, chilly soundscapes before exploding with the Danish young guns as they close out the night. Supporters RØSENKØPF and Martial Canterel will whet your palate.

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MONDAY

Tonight, join us at BookCourt for our Summer Launch Party! We will be celebrating the release of Bomb’s Summer Issue with several of our wonderful contributors, including Joshua Cohen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Justin Lieberman, Lynn Melnick and B. Wurtz. We’d love to see you!

This is the last chance to check out photographer Matthew Brandt’s exhibition Lakes, Trees and Honeybees, on view at the Yossi Milo Gallery until Friday!

TUESDAY

In conjunction with its exhibition Young Curators, New Ideas IV’s ERRATUM, the Meulensteen presents excerpt hearts performance, part musical exploration of love, with niv Acosta, Tess Dworman, and BOMBlog’s Art Editor, Legacy Russell.

Word hosts a reading this evening in association with Akashic Books and the Brooklyn Rail. Many excellent authors will appear and read their words, including Donald Breckenridge, Mickey Hess, Nathan Larson, Joe Meno, and Leigh Stein.

WEDNESDAY

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research kicks off a new series of classes, Spinoza and Mendelssohn: Politics of the Sacred and Profane, which will explore notions of political theology and the secular through a comparative textual study. Get your brain on!

The New Museum hosts a conversation between artists Otto Piene and Massimiliano Gioni about art and technology.

THURSDAY

Chekov’s Uncle Vanya, reinterpreted by writer Annie Baker and director Sam Gold, is up at Soho Rep until August 26!

FRIDAY

Curbs and Stoops, in collaboration with Rhythmology, present their first pop-up art exhibition, featuring Mexican-American painter and installation artist, Francisco Moreno. Moreno’s solo show, Las Noticias explores issues of assimilation and immersion in the terms of the immigrant’s experience entering into American culture. The artist will give a lecture Thursday, and the opening reception will be held Friday.

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FRIDAY

Head over to the Abrons Arts Center once more for an homage to filmmaker and 20th-century cultural icon Jack Smith, whose well-known film Jungle Island was inspired by the star of Cobra Woman, Maria Montez, also known as The Queen of Technicolor.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, Alps, opens today at Cinema Village.

The River to River Festival is determined to keep you musically sated and financially secure. Whet your appetite for Saturday’s 4Knots extravaganza with a free show at 7 PM this evening—Fiery Furnaces member Eleanor Friedberger and Brooklyn locals Ex Cops take the stage at Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport; electronic duo Zambri supports.

The Spy Music Festival is coming to a close this weekend, and there’s something worth catching every night! Tonight, Rhyton, Chris Forsyth, P. G. Six, and Raajmahal are playing at Death by Audio.

The Dixon Place Theater hosts D’FunQT, a solo stand-up show by comedian and performance artist D’Lo, which presents the artist’s experiences growing up in an immigrant household and explores queer identity through equal measures of humor and poignancy. D’FunQT is presented in conjunction with New York’s HOT! Festival, which continues all through July.

SATURDAY

Bushwick’s newest music venue and beer garden, The Well, a companion establishment to the yet-unfinished concert space The Wick, inaugurates its performance stage with Whippin’ Work, a marathon musical event starring Dipset lead rapper Cam’ron.

Alternatively, keep it thrifty and venture back down to South Street Seaport for the Village Voice’s 4Knots Music Festival, which brings you free sets by Archers of Loaf, Crocodiles, The Drums, Nick Waterhouse, and a slew of other talented artists.

Join poet and artist Jon Cotner for We’re Floating, an interactive poetry walk through Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City designed to generate dialogue and give participants a novel way of experiencing art: while in motion.

Second to last day of Spy Music Festival: catch Thurston Moore & Lauren Connors and Blood Trio at The Stone.

SUNDAY

Film Forum offers a Hitchcock double feature today and tomorrow—for the price of admission, catch Shadow of a Doubt and Saboteur back-to-back.

And last but not least of the Spy Music Festival: The Magik Markers, as well at Haunted House and Chicago Underground Duo at Roulette.

Copious amounts of fake blood. Wigs. Dance party. Raucous/evil laughter. CHERYL performs on Pier 16 as part of the River To River Festival. Pineapples. Malpractice. The plague. Ghosts.

Just a heads up for Monday so you can start pre-gaming NOW: BOMB will be hosting our summer launch party and talent show at BookCourt in celebration of the release of the newest issue!

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MONDAY

The summertime reading series Books Beneath the Bridge commences in the Brooklyn Bridge Park with Brian Francis Slattery reading from his novel Lost Everything, accompanied by an old-timey band.

The Franklin Park Reading Series continues with the theme “Travels and Journeys,” featuring writers Mark Leyner, Eric Sasson, Rupinder Gill, Matthue Roth, and Polly Bresnick.

TUESDAY

As part of its Art of Another Kind exhibition, the Guggenheim museum offers an evening of experimental music from the 1950s, by composers Earle Brown, John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The music can be absorbed while observing works on view by such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, and Antoni Tàpies.

At BookCourt, Colson Whitehead reads from his book Zone One, just out in paperback.

WEDNESDAY

Poet extraordinaire, Mark Strand, will read from his most recent book, Almost Invisible, at 192 Books.

The work of visual artist Whitney Claflin will be on display with her exhibition As Long As You Get To Be Somebody’s Slave, Too at the Thomas Erben Gallery for the rest of July. If you haven’t already stopped by to check it out, now’s the time.

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FRIDAY

Head back to BAM to catch Czech New Wave classic Daisies.

285 Kent puts on an unreasonably energetic electronic showcase tonight, headlined by juke veteran DJ Rashad. Brave the heat and test your footwork against the frenetic beats of the legendary Chicago producer.

The New Museum presents a fresh exhibition in its Lobby Gallery, entitled Pictures from the Moon, featuring holographic works dating from the 1960s to the present, from a variety of established artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Bruce Nauman, Eric Orr, Ed Ruscha, and James Turrell.

SATURDAY

Anthology Film Archives re-introduces works from the legendary documentary filmmaker, Robert Flaherty. Filmed in 1922 and lauded as the first feature-length documentary, Nanook of the North, will play on Saturday. And Man of Aran, Flaherty’s third major film, will be screened on Sunday.

The Spy Music Festival continues with Dustin Wong and Dan Friel performing at 285 Kent alongside White Out & Charles Gayle and PC Worship.

MoMA PS1’s outdoor series, Warm Up 2012, kicks off this weekend with an exciting line-up of artists hailing from Los Angeles and Toronto, as well as from New York City. Performances will be given by Todd Terry, X-Mix Productions, Light Asylum, Mexican Summer, Nguzunguzu, Fade to Mind, Hippos in Tanks, Trust, Arts and Crafts, Arca ft. HBA, and UNO. And this is just the beginning. This series, which celebrates music and performance poised on the very edge of the cutting edge, continues every Saturday through September, so stay tuned to Bomb Alert for more upcoming events!

SUNDAY

Joseph Keckler performs his I am an Opera at Joe’s Pub this evening, a brilliant operatic performance from a classically trained singer, but with a contemporary spin. You’ll see.

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MONDAY

McNally Jackson Books and New Directions present an evening with Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. The author will read from his most recently translated novel, Satantango—the basis for the epic Béla Tarr film of the same name—before discussing the work with James Wood of The New Yorker.

TUESDAY

The Clocktower Gallery is currently displaying a slew of exciting exhibitions, including Prisoner Fantasies: Photos from the Inside, a collaborative mixed-media project produced entirely through the creative efforts of prison inmates.

The Stone hosts sound experimentalists and composers Rob Mazurek and Angelica Sanchez as part of the Spy Music Festival. Mazurek and Sanchez take the stage at 8 PM; Darius Jones, Shahzad Ismaily, and Ryan Sawyer will perform as a trio afterwards.

WEDNESDAY

As long as you have access to a clear vantage overlooking the Hudson River, you should have no trouble enjoying the annual Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks Show! Alternatively, you might head to one of these specifically selected viewing locations.

THURSDAY

Pothole, curated by sculptor Huma Bhabha, completes its run at Salon 94 on Friday. Pothole is intended as a paean to artistic camaraderie and friendship, and features work by Julie Mehretu, Joe Bradley, and Dana Schutz, among others. Don’t miss it!

As part of the Lincoln Center Festival, the renowned Druid Theater Company opens DruidMurphy, a cyclical production comprising three works by major Irish playwright Tom Murphy. Murphy is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed dramatists, and Druid’s sprawling triptych—Conversations on a Homecoming, Famine, and A Whistle in the Dark—should prove to be one of the summer season’s most riveting theatrical experiences.

FRIDAY

Head to BAM to catch Czech New Wave classic Daisies.

285 Kent puts on an unreasonably energetic electronic showcase tonight, headlined by juke veteran DJ Rashad. Brave the heat and test your footwork against the frenetic beats of the legendary Chicago producer.

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FRIDAY

Socrates Sculpture Park is throwing a nighttime party called Park Side of the Moon in celebration of 25 years of giant sculpture, multi-media installation, public art! The evening begins with a pig roast dinner and continues on with a nightful of music, dancing, and strange and fun activities in the dark. Don’t miss performances and video by Jacolby Satterwhite, music by AndrewAndrew, and an exhibition on view with artists Natalie Jeremijenko, Mary Miss, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and George Trakas.

The Guggenheim’s Rineke Djikstra retrospective opens to the public today!

Retreat from the sun! Head to the IFC to catch two new, suspenseful French films: Philippe Garrel’s A Burning Hot Summer (Un été brulant) and André Téchiné’s Unforgivable (Impardonnables).

SATURDAY

Poets House commences its 2012 Showcase with a marathon reading by an extensive cast of talented poets, including Rowan Ricardo Philips, Cathy Park Hong, Eileen Myles, Thom Donovan, John Yau, and BOMB’s Senior Editor Mónica de la Torre.

Ecstatic Summer, a concert series that carries on the spirit of the Kaufman Center’s Ecstatic Music Festival, begins today with performances by Roomful of Teeth, featuring tUnE-yArDs’s Merrill Garbus and electronic composer and New Amsterdam co-director William Brittelle, and Yehudim, the brainchild of Ecstatic Music Festival founder (and New Amsterdam co-head) Judd Greenstein. The event is presented in conjunction with the River to River Festival, and will take place at World Financial Center Plaza.

The Spy Music Festival, organized by Brooklyn-based experimental label Northern Spy, begins its second annual run this weekend. Tonight, Issue Project Room will host the Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio, Neptune, and Extra Life. Stay tuned to the BOMB Alert for more Festival highlights.

SUNDAY

At long last, MoMA unveils Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan. One of the summer’s most eagerly awaited museum exhibitions, this retrospective—organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía and the Tate Modern—surveys the career of the Arte Povera hero in its entirety.

Beasts of the Southern Wild is now playing in select theaters in New York. Wind down a busy weekend with this imaginative film about a young girl and her father, living in Louisiana’s southernmost region, The Bathtub.

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MONDAY

Anthology Film Archives will hold its Annual Film Preservation Honors and Benefit as a way to acknowledge and appreciate important contributors. The honorees this year will be Cinetech, The Women’s Film Preservation Fund, and Richard Pena. The evening will feature performances from DJ Michael O’Neill and Bush Tetras, with special guests Richard Barone and Felice Rosser, as well as cocktails, things to munch, and a rather tantalizing raffle.

TUESDAY

Head to The Kitchen to experience an unusual pairing of contemporary music with silent experimental films. Cinema 16 presents five different cinematic works, including Standish Lawder’s ColorFilm and Len Lye’s Color Cry, overlaid by a musical score designed by New York artist Matteah Baim.

WEDNESDAY

The Guggenheim Museum will host an opening reception for a retrospective of the work of Dutch artist, Rineke Dijkstra. The show will feature a wealth of photographic pieces, as well as several video installations. The opening is a members-only event and the exhibition will be open to the public Friday the 29th.

Celebrate the release of the Coffin Factory’s third issue at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, with readings by various talented literary persons, including Chinelo Okapranta, Sam Allingham, Ali Hosseini, Lara Vapnyar, and Justin Taylor.

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FRIDAY

As part of its monthly music series, Get Weird, The New Museum presents Graham Lambkin, formerly of Shadow Ring and now primarily known for his solo work, and C. Spencer Yeh, whose many current projects range from quartets to video performance, for an evening of music that promises to live up to the title of the series.

Photoville Brooklyn opens at the Brooklyn Bridge Park! Come partake in an exciting variety of activities and interests, including lectures, workshops, nighttime projections, and photo exhibitions on view in freight containers that will double as temporary gallery spaces for the next week and a half.

The Whitney offers a free tour of its ongoing exhibit, Singular Visions, in American Sign Language. Come participate in a different kind of tour, one that reaches the senses through a different mode, potentially spurring new ways of seeing and interpreting art. The exhibit presents work by artists Jonathan Borofsky, Alexander Calder, Eva Hesse, Matthew Day Jackson, Jasper Johns, Lee Krasner, Len Lye, Agnes Martin, Josephine Meckseper, and Fred Wilson.

SATURDAY

Blues Control will play from their album Valley Tangents, just out from Drag City Records, at 285 Kent. The band will be performing alongside several other bands and DJs, including Purling Hiss, Tonstartsbandht, Jordan Raedelli, Brian Turner, and Paul Major.

The Darmstadt Series continues at Issue Project Room with an evening of cutting edge, experimental music and performance. NYC music ensemble Either/Or will perform the work of composer/poet Chris Mann, while performance group Object Collection will offer an auditory experience of the unconventional sort.

SUNDAY

Head over to BookCourt for a reading hosted by the Brownstone Poets, featuring an excellent all-Brooklyn-based line-up.

Annette Insdorf, moderator of 92Y’s film series Reel Pieces, will host a reception at 92Y to celebrate her new book, Philip Kaufman (Contemporary Film Directors), a critical analysis of the filmmaker and his cinematic achievements. The evening will commence with a book signing and continue on with a screening of Kaufman’s mesmerizing 1974 forgotten classic, The White Dawn.

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MONDAY

Check out Caroline Martel’s interactive installation at the Museum of the Moving Image, entitled INDUSTRY/CINEMA, which presents an alternate version of film’s history from 1903-1991, placing well-known films alongside their lesser-known counterparts.

Boom Collective brings you Destroyer at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.

TUESDAY

Head over to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe for Shameless: Pride Week, a spectacular line-up of queer women writers, including Laurie Weeks and more, gathered in one place and curated by author Melissa Febos, to give readings of poetry, prose, and film.

Sheila Heti, author of the novel How Should a Person Be, reads from the newly released American edition of the book at Powerhouse Arena at 7 PM.

WEDNESDAY

Exhibitions of work by Brice Marden and Thomas Demande will finish out their run at Matthew Marks Gallery on Saturday. Don’t miss your opportunity to view these fascinating shows!

Kumare, Vikram Gandhi’s immersive, mischievous documentary-style exploration of American infatuation with yogic spiritual practices opens today at the IFC Center. Gandhi will speak before the 6:25 and 8:20 PM showings.

As part of the City Parks Foundation’s annual SummerStage concert series, hip-hop luminaries Brand Nubian will play a free show in Red Hook Park at 7 PM. Game Rebellion will provide opening support.

THURSDAY

The Whitney will devote its third floor to the multivalent work of Sharon Hayes. This sprawling survey of Hayes’s investigations of “speech acts,” entitled There’s So Much I Want to Say to You, was conceived and constructed with particular attention to the spatial qualities of the museum’s third floor galleries.

Dance your night away at the Brooklyn Museum, whose Audiophile program will feature performances by locally-based acts Small Black and Lemonade. Admission to the event is free with a museum ticket.

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FRIDAY

This weekend Anthology Film Archives presents a special series, Sometimes Cities: Urban America Beyond NYC, a set of documentaries dealing with the plights and promises of often-forgotten metropolises in the United States. Included are films by Julien Temple, James Gaffney, Martin Lucas, Jonathan Miller, Stephen Lighthill, Tom Jarmusch, and Chad Freidrichs.

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space will open Cultural Transference, an interdisciplinary show focusing on cross-pollination between contemporary culture and art. These interstices will be plumbed by a talented and diverse group of young artists, including Pablo Helguera, Christopher K. Ho, and Dread Scott.

SATURDAY

CLMP kicks off the 13th Annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend with The Magathon, a marathon reading in which editors will present a wide variety of literary magazines, including your very own BOMB! Other journals will include 6×6, A Public Space, Conjunctions, Bellevue Literary Review, Literal Magazine, BOOKFORUM, The Literary Review, The Common, and Washington Square Review. Don’t miss this chance to get submerged into the wonderful world of literary magazines and journals!

First shown in Switzerland in 2011, Polly Apfelbaum’s installation Haunted House opens this evening at T Space in Rhinebeck, NY. The first viewing will run from 3-6:00 PM.

SUNDAY

In addition to the Magathon on Saturday, CLMP is also hosting a HUGE magazine sale at the Housingworks Bookstore Cafe, where a vast array of literary publications will be available for just $2 each.

In conjunction with Williamsburg’s Reverse Space, curatorial group AD Projects brings you Spectrum Vision, an electrifying exploration of alternate and potential constructions of reality. Spectrum Vision will run until June 30, but today is your only chance to view a public exhibition of Amanda Browder’s CHROMATIC HI-FIVE!, a massive vehicular sculpture that is being showcased outdoors as part of the Northside Festival. HEAVYPET will contribute sonic accompaniment from 6–9:00 PM.

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MONDAY

Head down to Crown Height’s Franklin Park. The bar’s celebrated monthly reading series hosts Diane Williams, Patrick Somerville, Jennifer Miller, Elizabeth Ellen, and Andrew Cothren.

TUESDAY

It’s time to get yourself educated. The renowned Brooklyn Institute for Social Research launches another round of classes this week, including seminars on Freud and Film and Philosophy.

The ever-fascinating journal The Coffin Factory hosts What’s a Writer?, a panel discussion on contemporary writing, at the New York Public Library. Authors Bonnie Nadzam, John Reed, and Jacques Strauss will speak about the writing life of today.

WEDNESDAY

In anticipation of her upcoming retrospective, the Whitney will exhibit Yayoi Kusama’s staggering work Fireflies on the Water.

Matthew Akers, director of Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present, will entertain questions about the making of the documentary prior to its 7:50 showing at the Film Forum. For more on Marina Abramović, click here.

Head over to the Canal Park Playhouse for the final installment of the Back Room Reading Series with MOMENTum The evening will feature a wide range of musical, storytelling, and theatrical talent, plus more, with performers Cynthia Hopkins, Victoria Libertore, Karen Docc, Jill Stoddard, Reeva Wartel and Joe Roland.

THURSDAY

Brooklyn’s own Northside Festival kicks off Thursday night with performances by artists as diverse as ?uestlove, the GZA, Daughn Gibson, and Cold Cave. Independent film screenings and entrepreneurial events will also take place throughout Greenpoint and Williamsburg.

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